USS Alfred Wolf (DE-544)

Diagram showing a US Navy escort destroyer ("DE"). The type shown is a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort, which Alfred Wolf would have been part of.
History
United States
Name:	Alfred Wolf
Namesake:	Seaman First Class Alfred Wolf (1923-1943)
Builder:	Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts
Laid down:	9 December 1943
Fate:	Construction contract cancelled 5 September 1944
Status:	Hulk was broken up on the building ways
Notes:	Construction suspended 10 June 1944
General characteristics (as planned)
Class and type:	John C. Butler-class destroyer escort
Displacement:	1,350 long tons (1,370 t) (light) 1,745 long tons (1,773 t) (full load)
Length:	306 ft (93 m) oa 300 ft (91 m) w/l
Beam:	36 ft 10 in (11.23 m)
Draft:	11 ft (3.4 m)
Installed power:	2 × "D" Express boilers 12,000 shaft horsepower (8,900 kW)
Propulsion:	2 × geared turbine engines 2 × propellers
Speed:	24 kn (44 km/h; 28 mph)
Range:	6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement:	14 officers, 201 enlisted
Armament:	2 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber guns 2 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors AA guns 10 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon AA cannons 3 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 8 × depth charge projectors 1 × depth charge projector (Hedgehog) 2 × depth charge tracks

USS Alfred Wolf (DE-544) was a proposed World War II United States Navy John C. Butler-class destroyer escort that was cancelled before completion. She was named after Alfred Wolf, a U.S. Navy sailor killed during World War II.

The name Alfred Wolf was assigned to the ship on 26 October 1943. Her keel was laid at the Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts, on 9 December 1943.^[1]

Due to changes in World War II ship construction priorities, the construction of Alfred Wolf was suspended on 10 June 1944 and cancelled altogether on 5 September 1944. Subsequently, the incomplete ship was scrapped on the building ways.^[1]

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References

John C. Butler-class destroyer escorts
United States Navy	Completed John C. Butler O'Flaherty Raymond Richard W. Suesens Abercrombie Oberrender Robert Brazier Edwin A. Howard Jesse Rutherford Key Gentry Traw Maurice J. Manuel Naifeh Doyle C. Barnes Kenneth M. Willett Jaccard Lloyd E. Acree George E. Davis Mack Woodson Johnnie Hutchins Walton Rolf Pratt Rombach McGinty Alvin C. Cockrell French Cecil J. Doyle Thaddeus Parker John L. Williamson Presley Williams Richard S. Bull Richard M. Rowell Eversole Dennis Edmonds Shelton Straus La Prade Jack Miller Stafford Walter C. Wann Samuel B. Roberts Le Ray Wilson Lawrence C. Taylor Melvin R. Nawman Oliver Mitchell Tabberer Robert F. Keller Leland E. Thomas Chester T. O'Brien Douglas A. Munro Dufilho Haas Corbesier Conklin McCoy Reynolds William Seiverling Ulvert M. Moore Kendall C. Campbell Goss Grady Charles E. Brannon Albert T. Harris Cross Hanna Joseph E. Connolly Donaldson / Gilligan Formoe Heyliger Edward H. Allen Tweedy Howard F. Clark Silverstein Lewis Bivin Rizzi Osberg Wagner Vandivier Canceled William C. Lawe Lloyd Thomas Keppler Kleinsmith Henry W. Tucker Weiss Francovich DE-380 (Unnamed) DE-381 (Unnamed) DE-425 — DE-437 (Unnamed) Woodrow R. Thompson Steinaker DE-453 — DE-507 (Unnamed) DE-511 — DE-515 (Unnamed) Sheehan Oswald A. Powers Groves Alfred Wolf Harold J. Ellison Myles C. Fox Charles R. Ware Carpellotti Eugene A. Greene Gyatt Benner Kenneth D. Bailey Dennis J. Buckley Everett F. Larson Rogers Blood William R. Rush William M. Wood DE-558 — DE-562 (Unnamed)
Portuguese Navy	Diogo-Cão (ex-Formoe) Corte Real (ex-McCoy Reynolds)
Preceded by: Rudderow class Followed by: Dealey class
List of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy